• consisting of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH), β-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (β-MSH), and γ-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (γ-MSH) that are...
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  • It is the most important of the melanocyte-stimulating hormones (MSHs) (also known as melanotropins) in stimulating melanogenesis, a process that in...
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  • results in hypertension on HSD. α-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone β-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone Adrenocorticotropic hormone Kastin A (26 January 2013). Handbook...
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    anorexigenic effects in chicks. α-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone γ-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone Adrenocorticotropic hormone Abba Kastin (26 January 2013)...
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    which (counting from the N-terminus) may be cleaved to form α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) (this common structure is responsible for excessively...
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    hormone Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) Insulin Leptin Luteinizing hormone (LH) Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) Oxytocin Parathyroid hormone (PTH)...
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    Agouti-signaling protein (category Peptide hormones)
    agouti-signaling protein (ASIP) is a competitive antagonist with alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) to bind with melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) proteins...
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    protein, and include adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), and beta-endorphin, and melanocyte-stimulating hormone are released under the influence of hypothalamic...
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  • Corticotropic cell (category Peptide hormone secreting cells)
    β-lipotropin (β-LPH), and melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH). These cells are stimulated by corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) and make up 15–20%...
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    of linea nigra is attributed to an increased production of melanocyte-stimulating hormone by the placenta. This physiological phenomenon is concomitant...
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    The melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R), also known as melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor (MSHR), melanin-activating peptide receptor, or melanotropin...
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    α-Melanotropin (α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone, or α-MSH) β-Melanotropin (β-MSH) γ-Melanotropin (γ-MSH) 𝛿-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone (𝛿-MSH, present...
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  • Photoprotection is the biochemical process that helps organisms cope with molecular damage caused by sunlight. Plants and other oxygenic phototrophs have...
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    Normally MC1R would bind to the Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) which is released by the pituitary gland and stimulates the production and release of...
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  • chain of the natural hormone is not necessary for its action. He isolated another pituitary hormone called melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) and found that...
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    Melanocytes are melanin-producing neural crest-derived cells located in the bottom layer (the stratum basale) of the skin's epidermis, the middle layer...
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  • The following is a list of hormones found in Homo sapiens. Spelling is not uniform for many hormones. For example, current North American and international...
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    life, this area produces melanocyte stimulating hormone or MSH which causes the release of melanin pigment in skin melanocytes (pigment cells). However...
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  • activated by synthetic (i.e. afamelanotide) and endogenous agonist melanocyte-stimulating hormones. Several selective ligands for the melanocortin receptors are...
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    Terry's nails. The discoloration is thought to be due to β-melanocytestimulating hormone. Seventy percent of hemodialysis patients and 56% of renal transplant...
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    proposed structure of the factor inhibiting the release of melanocyte-stimulating hormone". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United...
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    Melanotropes) are another type of chromophobe which secrete melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH). "Chromophobe" also refers to a type of renal cell carcinoma...
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    transcription factor. Alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH), beta-melanocyte stimulating hormone (β-MSH), and adrenocorticotropic hormone are endogenous agonists...
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    2024. Fabrikant J, et al. (July 2013). "A review and update on melanocyte stimulating hormone therapy: afamelanotide". J Drugs Dermatol. 12 (7): 775–79. PMID 23884489...
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    anterior pituitary gland. Melanocyte-stimulating hormones normally stimulates melanocytes to make black eumelanin, but if the melanocytes have a mutated receptor...
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    (prolyl-leucyl-glycinamide) is a peptide hormone produced in the hypothalamus that inhibits the release of melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) Ophthalmic acid...
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    receptor (MC1-R) agonist and a synthetic peptide and analogue of α-melanocyte stimulating hormone. It is administered as subcutaneous implant. The US Food and...
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    dopamine, substance P, growth hormone–releasing hormone (GHRH), neurokinin B (NKB), β-endorphin, melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH), and somatostatin. Proopiomelanocortin...
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    of adrenal insufficiency, in which hormones that stimulate melanin synthesis, such as melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH), are frequently elevated. Cushing's...
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    gonads in both sexes. Follicle-stimulating hormone stimulates sex cell production; luteinizing hormone stimulates gonadal hormone production. Gonadotropin levels...
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